WEBVTT - Deeper Than You Think 0:00:00.160 --> 0:00:03.040 Hey there. Before we jump into the amazing message today, 0:00:03.080 --> 0:00:05.640 we wanted to let you know about our upcoming tour, 0:00:05.760 --> 0:00:08.520 the starting end just a few days. We're heading out 0:00:08.840 --> 0:00:11.240 in the month of August with our friends Carrie, Joe 0:00:11.280 --> 0:00:14.680 and Codycarnes, and we're coming to a city near you. 0:00:14.800 --> 0:00:17.400 We're going to have an amazing time in the presence 0:00:17.440 --> 0:00:20.040 of God. Every single time we gather, He's faithful to 0:00:20.120 --> 0:00:23.080 meet with us and do something new and fresh in 0:00:23.120 --> 0:00:25.480 our hearts. So we hope you'll join us. Yes, we're 0:00:25.480 --> 0:00:29.160 going to be in Dallas, San Antonio, Omaha. We're going 0:00:29.200 --> 0:00:32.760 to be in Toledo, Dayton. We're coming to you Knoxville, Huntsville. Yes, 0:00:32.880 --> 0:00:36.400 we're also going to be in Louisville, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Philadelphia, 0:00:36.479 --> 0:00:40.040 and New York. So come out join us, bring your friends, 0:00:40.120 --> 0:00:43.440 bring your family. Everything you need tickets and information is 0:00:43.479 --> 0:00:46.960 at Elevation Worship dot com. We'll see see. What I 0:00:47.040 --> 0:00:49.280 want to do with the time that I have with 0:00:49.400 --> 0:00:54.440 you today, which I take very seriously, is continue in 0:00:54.480 --> 0:01:01.480 the conversation that we started last week. All right, I 0:01:01.520 --> 0:01:06.800 want to continue on this path that we only really 0:01:06.840 --> 0:01:09.160 took a few steps last week down this path. Let 0:01:09.240 --> 0:01:12.400 me tell you there's so much to this that God 0:01:12.480 --> 0:01:15.039 is showing me. And don't worry. If you weren't here 0:01:15.120 --> 0:01:18.480 last week, you're like, oh no, now I'm missing out. 0:01:18.520 --> 0:01:21.040 I won't know what you're talking about. You will, You'll 0:01:21.040 --> 0:01:23.399 pick right up. Because I want to go into a 0:01:23.520 --> 0:01:26.800 very familiar scripture today, and I thank you worship team. 0:01:26.959 --> 0:01:28.559 Y'all can be seated. I want to go to John 0:01:28.600 --> 0:01:34.480 chapter four. Yeah, y'all were clapping, y'all like to worship now? 0:01:34.520 --> 0:01:39.920 Sitting down? All right, thanks y'all. I want to go 0:01:39.920 --> 0:01:44.880 to John chapter four, sharing with you some thoughts on 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:51.840 the hard work of happiness. On the hard work of happiness. 0:01:54.120 --> 0:01:57.040 And I think I told you last week that this 0:01:57.080 --> 0:02:04.000 came to me while I was riding a bike. But then, 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:07.880 you know, you look all over the Bible and you 0:02:08.080 --> 0:02:11.280 just see. Now, not all of my sermons start from 0:02:11.280 --> 0:02:13.440 a Bible passage. And I should be honest with you. 0:02:15.160 --> 0:02:19.200 I think that the best sermons they feel more like 0:02:19.280 --> 0:02:24.079 real life, not just like the library. So we don't 0:02:24.160 --> 0:02:26.960 just want to approach things from an intellectual point of view. 0:02:28.120 --> 0:02:31.480 Some people think that something is more spiritual if it's 0:02:31.520 --> 0:02:35.359 more intellectual. I say, oh, that was really deep. What 0:02:35.440 --> 0:02:37.480 you said, well, what does it mean? I don't know, 0:02:38.000 --> 0:02:40.160 but it was deep. How do you know? Because I 0:02:40.200 --> 0:02:44.600 didn't understand it. It was deep. We used to have 0:02:44.639 --> 0:02:46.520 a staff member who would get up on stage, and 0:02:46.520 --> 0:02:50.840 Holly said he had the spiritual gift of confusing her. 0:02:51.720 --> 0:02:54.000 She said, when he talks, he always makes me think 0:02:54.040 --> 0:02:56.800 that I don't get it. I don't really think he 0:02:56.880 --> 0:02:59.840 gets it. So I think by him making me not 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:03.160 get it and making me think that he's got something 0:03:03.200 --> 0:03:06.360 deep to say, he circumvinced the fact that he didn't 0:03:06.360 --> 0:03:10.960 study by just saying stuff that sounds so abstract that 0:03:11.040 --> 0:03:13.520 I think, well, I guess that's why I made on 0:03:13.600 --> 0:03:18.639 my sat because I don't understand this. But in the scripture, 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:22.280 in John chapter four, there's a passage a story that 0:03:22.440 --> 0:03:25.600 is well loved and well worn, and as familiar as 0:03:25.600 --> 0:03:28.440 it is, I want us to get into it today. 0:03:28.720 --> 0:03:31.359 And there's something that the Lord is speaking on the 0:03:31.400 --> 0:03:34.200 subject of the hard work of happiness. And before I 0:03:34.240 --> 0:03:36.680 read you my scripture, let me tell you the quote 0:03:36.720 --> 0:03:39.120 that actually gave me that phrase. Okay, it's not a 0:03:39.120 --> 0:03:41.840 Bible verse that says the hard work of happiness. I 0:03:41.920 --> 0:03:45.520 was watching a documentary and that quote came up. The 0:03:45.560 --> 0:03:49.280 person said, it's something that took me to age seventy 0:03:49.560 --> 0:03:54.400 to realize that happiness is really hard work. And me 0:03:54.480 --> 0:03:57.000 and Holly were watching the same movie at the same time, 0:03:58.040 --> 0:04:01.440 and I looked over at her, and she didn't look 0:04:01.440 --> 0:04:03.720 like it really registered at all at a deep level, 0:04:03.880 --> 0:04:06.440 because like I told you last week, she's naturally happy. 0:04:06.840 --> 0:04:08.360 I don't mean she doesn't work hard at it. She 0:04:08.400 --> 0:04:10.880 tries not to complain, she serves others, she does a 0:04:10.880 --> 0:04:13.480 lot of habits that make her happy. But she's more 0:04:13.480 --> 0:04:16.520 hardwired for happiness than me. I figured that out in 0:04:16.560 --> 0:04:19.720 our marriage. One marriage, somebody said in every marriage there's 0:04:19.720 --> 0:04:23.640 the crazy one. Make sure that you're the crazy one 0:04:23.680 --> 0:04:27.920 in the relationship before you get married, and go easier 0:04:27.920 --> 0:04:32.920 for you. And when Holly teaches her study on marriage, 0:04:32.960 --> 0:04:35.240 missus better half becoming this is better half. She's not 0:04:35.279 --> 0:04:37.839 bragging like, oh, I'm the better half, but I certainly 0:04:37.880 --> 0:04:41.240 would say that of her. And in my life it's 0:04:41.279 --> 0:04:44.960 been it's been hard work to actually be happy, and 0:04:45.040 --> 0:04:48.440 hard work I'm good at, and happiness not so much. 0:04:49.279 --> 0:04:51.359 And you know, after I'd preached that last week, I 0:04:51.400 --> 0:04:54.599 went home and said, did they hear what I said? 0:04:55.760 --> 0:04:59.320 What I was trying to say, It's hard to know. 0:04:59.400 --> 0:05:02.080 Sometimes a lot of times I think my sermons are 0:05:02.120 --> 0:05:05.520 a lot deeper than you think they are. Like I'll 0:05:05.520 --> 0:05:08.480 preach a whole sermon with all these Greek words or 0:05:08.880 --> 0:05:11.240 you know, these insights and the Old Testament and the 0:05:11.279 --> 0:05:14.279 New Testament, and then the people will come up to 0:05:14.279 --> 0:05:15.839 me and say, that was a funny story about the 0:05:15.880 --> 0:05:17.920 toilet getting clogged up there at the end. That was good. 0:05:17.960 --> 0:05:20.560 I like that. One time I preached on Ruth and 0:05:20.600 --> 0:05:23.640 Boaz and Man. I studied the whole Testament to preach 0:05:23.680 --> 0:05:26.119 that message, and they said, it's good. You're finally getting 0:05:26.160 --> 0:05:29.600 the kids a dog. Take's the one thing you heard, 0:05:29.640 --> 0:05:33.400 you know, is right there on the surface. So all 0:05:33.440 --> 0:05:36.599 that being said as a setup. The person who said 0:05:36.600 --> 0:05:41.960 that in the documentary was Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys. 0:05:42.960 --> 0:05:46.679 I defy you to name me a happier sounding band 0:05:46.720 --> 0:05:51.200 than the Beach Boys. That was the sound of my childhood. 0:05:51.640 --> 0:05:54.880 This is literally the man that was singing, We'll have fun, fun, 0:05:55.000 --> 0:05:59.320 fun till her daddy took the Ta bird away. And 0:05:59.400 --> 0:06:02.400 yet his his struggles are well documented now with mental 0:06:02.480 --> 0:06:06.560 illness and drug abuse, and he said something that was quoted. 0:06:07.040 --> 0:06:09.120 You know, it took me seventy years. He sold one 0:06:09.200 --> 0:06:13.760 hundred million albums The Beach Boys have He wrote what 0:06:13.800 --> 0:06:16.960 Paul McCartney said is the greatest song ever written. God 0:06:17.000 --> 0:06:20.320 only knows what I'd be without you. He wrote Good 0:06:20.440 --> 0:06:29.159 Vibrations for Pete's sake. And to know that as he 0:06:29.279 --> 0:06:34.520 was creating these masterpieces of music, that he was saying 0:06:34.560 --> 0:06:36.839 things like it was three weeks in my bed wondering 0:06:36.880 --> 0:06:40.159 if I wanted to live now. Apart from analyzing that 0:06:40.200 --> 0:06:43.159 specific situation, I just want to take that idea and 0:06:43.200 --> 0:06:44.479 talk to you about it for a few minutes. That 0:06:44.520 --> 0:06:48.680 it is possible for you to make happy music and 0:06:48.760 --> 0:06:53.320 have a troubled mind. That it is possible for you 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:58.360 to have memorized scripture and have a troubled soul. That 0:06:58.440 --> 0:07:02.440 it is possible for you to be sober, you know, 0:07:02.960 --> 0:07:05.800 free from some substances that you used to struggle with. 0:07:05.839 --> 0:07:07.840 But yet deep down, and this is what I want 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:10.680 to talk about a little deeper down today. From John 0:07:10.760 --> 0:07:15.520 chapter four, Do we really experience what Jesus came to 0:07:15.560 --> 0:07:18.440 give us? Do we really And to look at that 0:07:18.480 --> 0:07:21.560 we're going to go into John chapter four. This story 0:07:21.680 --> 0:07:29.040 is about I'm testing y'all out to see how much 0:07:29.080 --> 0:07:31.160 I need to cover. Sounds like I need to go 0:07:31.240 --> 0:07:35.920 to the very beginning today. Okay, good, good, good good. 0:07:36.080 --> 0:07:38.480 That lets me know. This is what y'all one of 0:07:38.520 --> 0:07:41.040 the most famous Bible stories, the woman at the Well, 0:07:41.480 --> 0:07:45.720 the woman in Samaria at the well that Jesus stopped 0:07:45.760 --> 0:07:50.160 to talk to and changed her life. And so where 0:07:50.200 --> 0:07:52.200 I want to start today is me a little different 0:07:52.200 --> 0:07:53.720 than where we end up. So just flow with me, 0:07:53.840 --> 0:07:55.400 Flow with me, Flow with the preacher. Would you please 0:07:55.400 --> 0:07:56.920 flow with the preacher. Touch and never say flow with 0:07:56.920 --> 0:08:01.600 the preacher. Touch your neighbor and say flow with the preacher. 0:08:01.920 --> 0:08:07.840 There you go, John chapter four, Verse one. Now Jesus 0:08:07.960 --> 0:08:10.400 learned that the Pharisees had heard that he was gaining 0:08:10.440 --> 0:08:14.600 and baptizing more disciples than John, although in fact it 0:08:14.680 --> 0:08:18.400 was not Jesus who baptized but his disciples. So he 0:08:18.480 --> 0:08:21.920 left Judea and went back once more to Galilee. Now 0:08:21.960 --> 0:08:24.840 he had to go through Samaria, so he came to 0:08:24.920 --> 0:08:28.280 a town in Samaria called Psykar, near the plot of 0:08:28.320 --> 0:08:32.120 Brown Jacob had given to his son Joseph Jacob's well 0:08:32.280 --> 0:08:35.120 was there, and Jesus, tired as he was from the journey, 0:08:35.440 --> 0:08:39.319 sat down by the well. It was about noon when 0:08:39.360 --> 0:08:42.840 a Samaritan woman came to draw water. Jesus said to her, 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:46.320 will you give me a drink? His disciples had gone 0:08:46.360 --> 0:08:50.400 into the town to buy food. The Samaritan woman said 0:08:50.440 --> 0:08:52.080 to him, you are a Jew and I am a 0:08:52.120 --> 0:08:55.240 Samaritan woman. How can you ask me for a drink? 0:08:55.280 --> 0:08:59.280 For Jews to not associate with Samaritans. And Jesus answered her, 0:08:59.280 --> 0:09:00.960 if you knew the gift of God and who it 0:09:01.040 --> 0:09:03.440 is to ask you for a drink, you lose the 0:09:03.480 --> 0:09:07.080 attitude and ask him, and he would have given you 0:09:07.200 --> 0:09:11.360 living water. Sir. The woman said, you have nothing to 0:09:11.480 --> 0:09:15.480 draw with, and the well is deep. Where can you 0:09:15.559 --> 0:09:19.320 get this living water? Are you greater than our father Jacob, 0:09:19.640 --> 0:09:22.920 who gave us the well and drank from it himself. 0:09:23.440 --> 0:09:25.280 He didn't need a woman to give him a jar, 0:09:25.440 --> 0:09:27.960 He had his own jar. Are you greater than Jacob? 0:09:29.120 --> 0:09:32.200 As did also his sons in livestock? And Jesus answer you, ready, 0:09:32.280 --> 0:09:35.240 this is deep. The scripture is deep. Everyone who drinks 0:09:35.320 --> 0:09:39.920 this water will be thirsty again. But whoever drinks. The 0:09:40.000 --> 0:09:44.680 water I give them will never thirst. Indeed, the water 0:09:44.800 --> 0:09:47.440 I give them will become in them a spring of 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:52.319 water welling up to eternal life. The woman said to him, 0:09:52.320 --> 0:09:54.480 this is forty two verses, y'all, I'm only going to 0:09:54.559 --> 0:09:59.360 read the first twenty four. The woman said to him, Sir, 0:10:00.400 --> 0:10:03.480 give me this water so that I won't get thirsty 0:10:03.520 --> 0:10:06.160 and have to keep coming here to draw water. And 0:10:06.200 --> 0:10:08.120 he told her, go call your husband and come back. 0:10:09.360 --> 0:10:12.679 I have no husband, she replied. Jesus said to her, 0:10:12.679 --> 0:10:14.440 you were right when you say you have no husband. 0:10:14.440 --> 0:10:16.319 Fact is you've had five husbands. The man you now 0:10:16.360 --> 0:10:18.400 have is not your husband. What you've said is quite true. 0:10:19.760 --> 0:10:23.960 Get a little closer now, sir, The woman said, I 0:10:24.000 --> 0:10:28.400 can see that you are a prophet. You think our 0:10:28.480 --> 0:10:31.840 ancestors worshiped on this mountain, but you Jews claim that 0:10:31.880 --> 0:10:36.120 the place we must worship is in Jerusalem. Woman, Jesus replied, 0:10:36.120 --> 0:10:38.920 believe me, a time is coming when you will worship 0:10:38.920 --> 0:10:43.160 the Father, neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem. You 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:46.160 Samaritans worship what you do not know. We worship what 0:10:46.200 --> 0:10:49.040 we do know. For salvation is from the Jews. Yet 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:52.160 a time is coming and has now come, when the 0:10:52.160 --> 0:10:55.679 true worshippers will worship the Father in the spirit and 0:10:55.800 --> 0:11:00.880 in truth. For they are the kind of worshippers seeks 0:11:01.960 --> 0:11:05.920 God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in the 0:11:06.000 --> 0:11:11.760 spirit and in truth. Let's stop there. The subject for 0:11:11.840 --> 0:11:18.439 today is deeper than you think, deeper than you think. 0:11:20.160 --> 0:11:25.599 It's deeper than you think. In defense of the disciples, 0:11:26.440 --> 0:11:30.120 they did not know where this was all heading. In 0:11:30.240 --> 0:11:33.280 defense of the Disciples, they had more faith than most 0:11:33.280 --> 0:11:37.559 of us will ever demonstrate by leaving their trained, chosen 0:11:37.640 --> 0:11:41.640 vocations in order to follow someone whose life would meet 0:11:41.679 --> 0:11:45.800 a violent end. At the same time that I commend 0:11:45.840 --> 0:11:48.640 them for their courage, I would like to go on 0:11:48.760 --> 0:11:51.600 record as saying that there is nothing obvious in the 0:11:51.640 --> 0:11:57.079 scriptures that makes me think that the disciples were particularly perceptive. 0:11:58.040 --> 0:12:00.880 What I'm trying to say is I don't think the 0:12:00.960 --> 0:12:05.880 Disciples were all that deep. Not saying they were dumb, 0:12:07.200 --> 0:12:12.840 but I wouldn't exactly characterize them as deep either. To 0:12:12.880 --> 0:12:16.640 give you one example of how they tended to be 0:12:16.720 --> 0:12:20.439 a little less than deep. Not saying they're stupid, I'm 0:12:20.480 --> 0:12:23.240 not saying they're shallow. I'm just saying that a lot 0:12:23.240 --> 0:12:26.240 of times, if you read the scriptures, Jesus seemed to 0:12:26.280 --> 0:12:29.920 be operating on one level and they were operating on another. 0:12:31.000 --> 0:12:33.160 And they were trying to catch up with them pretty 0:12:33.240 --> 0:12:35.120 much all the way to the cross, where they were 0:12:35.160 --> 0:12:39.040 surprised that he died after he told them that's a 0:12:39.040 --> 0:12:41.240 good example. He tells them one day he's like, I 0:12:41.240 --> 0:12:43.520 got to go to Jerusalem and die. So they walk 0:12:43.559 --> 0:12:45.960 a little down the road. He turns around and finds 0:12:46.000 --> 0:12:48.280 him talking, and he asked, what are you talking about? 0:12:48.520 --> 0:12:51.760 And they said, we were just trying to figure out 0:12:51.800 --> 0:12:54.400 who gets to sit on your right hand when you 0:12:54.520 --> 0:12:59.600 enter into your kingdom. So they weren't very deep fighting 0:12:59.600 --> 0:13:03.640 over pauseosician and status and stuff like that. I was 0:13:03.720 --> 0:13:07.400 just studying this one this week too. Jesus said, be 0:13:07.559 --> 0:13:11.040 careful of the yeast of the Pharisees and the Sadducees inherd. 0:13:11.800 --> 0:13:13.520 And he was talking about the things you let in 0:13:13.559 --> 0:13:16.000 your heart that take over and needing to see a 0:13:16.080 --> 0:13:18.959 sign versus just believing in God with that childlike faith. 0:13:19.800 --> 0:13:22.440 And so he said, be careful of the yeast. And 0:13:22.480 --> 0:13:24.360 they looked at each other and said, it's because you 0:13:24.400 --> 0:13:29.440 forgot to pack bread not that deep. Even in this 0:13:29.559 --> 0:13:32.640 passage that we just read is striking to me and 0:13:32.720 --> 0:13:35.120 maybe not to you, but it's striking to me. The 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:39.839 detail that while he is changing a lady's life, all 0:13:39.880 --> 0:13:42.920 they can think about is lunch. And I'm not saying 0:13:42.960 --> 0:13:45.000 that they're bad. I'm not saying that they should have 0:13:45.040 --> 0:13:47.720 been fasting. I'm not really even saying that I would 0:13:47.720 --> 0:13:49.959 have done any better, because after I ap preached to 0:13:49.960 --> 0:13:51.240 you all to eat lunch too, I'm not going to 0:13:51.240 --> 0:13:53.439 try to get somebody saved a Chipotle after I've preached. 0:13:53.600 --> 0:13:56.120 I'm going home to eat. That's all I'm gonna do. 0:13:56.160 --> 0:13:58.360 I'm appreciate you, I'm go home and eat. So I'm 0:13:58.400 --> 0:14:01.760 not criticizing the disciple. I'm just taking a moment to 0:14:01.840 --> 0:14:06.360 pause and say that in the scriptures, a lot of 0:14:06.360 --> 0:14:12.000 times Jesus was thinking a little bit deeper than the disciples. 0:14:12.480 --> 0:14:15.760 And I bring that up to ask the question, is 0:14:15.920 --> 0:14:20.119 Jesus thinking a little bit more deeply about your situation 0:14:21.000 --> 0:14:24.200 then you are thinking about your situation in this moment, 0:14:24.480 --> 0:14:28.880 and does he see it like you see it? Does 0:14:28.920 --> 0:14:32.960 he see it like you see it? With my kids, 0:14:33.000 --> 0:14:35.760 I have to be okay with the fact that my 0:14:35.960 --> 0:14:40.600 disciples Abdy, Graham and Elijah. All right, I don't have twelve. 0:14:40.640 --> 0:14:42.680 Three is enough for me. I don't know how he 0:14:42.680 --> 0:14:45.280 put up with twelve. He had twelve. These little children 0:14:45.320 --> 0:14:47.240 run around. I'll sit on the right hand. You didn't 0:14:47.240 --> 0:14:50.160 bring the bread. You know, what would you do if 0:14:50.160 --> 0:14:52.680 you had twelve of those? I have three, and I 0:14:52.760 --> 0:14:59.120 love them deeply, but they frustrate me greatly. Now, one 0:14:59.120 --> 0:15:02.000 thing I learned any we all got little kids. Look kids, 0:15:02.160 --> 0:15:05.240 Look kids. When they get a little older, they will 0:15:05.280 --> 0:15:08.920 pick on you and they'll start making fun of you. 0:15:09.040 --> 0:15:11.800 And it is completely normal to the developmental task of 0:15:11.840 --> 0:15:14.560 the child to start making fun of dad, because that's 0:15:14.640 --> 0:15:19.200 how the child differentiates and individuates. I don't know if 0:15:19.200 --> 0:15:22.880 that's a word or not. I just went with it. 0:15:22.920 --> 0:15:27.560 Made me sound deep. Individuate. Got to individuate so you 0:15:27.600 --> 0:15:34.320 can matriculate. Pontificate. Was I saying, Oh, how my kids 0:15:36.440 --> 0:15:39.120 they love me? Listen, we have a home of respect. 0:15:39.200 --> 0:15:40.760 Sometimes in trying to do humor, I don't want to 0:15:40.800 --> 0:15:43.880 give you the wrong example. Our home is very respectful, 0:15:44.320 --> 0:15:48.800 very loving, very warm, and they love me. I think 0:15:48.840 --> 0:15:50.880 they looked up to me. I think they think I'm 0:15:50.920 --> 0:15:53.640 the best day that they did ever have. They say 0:15:53.680 --> 0:15:59.040 that on Father's Day, but on many occasions, the only 0:15:59.240 --> 0:16:04.440 time they get along is when they band together to 0:16:04.560 --> 0:16:07.840 beat up on me. And I'm cool with that because 0:16:07.880 --> 0:16:10.400 I'm christ Like and if I have to hang here 0:16:10.440 --> 0:16:14.080 on this cross to unify these three kids that are 0:16:14.080 --> 0:16:17.280 fighting all the time, so y'all can make fun of 0:16:17.320 --> 0:16:20.560 how old I am. I'm not ashamed of age, by 0:16:20.640 --> 0:16:24.320 the way. Okay, so oh you're getting old? Old is 0:16:24.360 --> 0:16:33.320 the goal. I didn't die, What did you do? Old 0:16:33.400 --> 0:16:36.040 is the goal. Let's make a T shirt or a 0:16:36.040 --> 0:16:38.360 fanny pack or something that says old is the goal. 0:16:38.600 --> 0:16:44.680 Wear it with pride. Yeah. Yeah, but they make fun 0:16:44.720 --> 0:16:50.080 of me. Classic Dad, They say, classic Dad, just like 0:16:50.320 --> 0:16:54.040 Dad to say that. Did you hear Dad saying that 0:16:54.400 --> 0:16:58.040 they make fun of me? This summer on vacation. You 0:16:58.080 --> 0:16:59.960 know so many wonderful memories that I can tell you about. 0:17:00.040 --> 0:17:03.160 Let me talking about this one. Every time they wanted 0:17:03.160 --> 0:17:07.040 to go swim in the ocean, I went. Holly didn't go. 0:17:08.560 --> 0:17:13.240 I went, just pointing out she is not always the 0:17:13.280 --> 0:17:17.000 more perfect parent. But guess what, because I went in 0:17:17.080 --> 0:17:19.919 the ocean, I was subject to their mockery. Here's what 0:17:20.000 --> 0:17:22.680 kept happening every time we go out. Every time we 0:17:22.800 --> 0:17:25.000 go out, every time we go out to the ocean. 0:17:25.520 --> 0:17:30.160 Within ten minutes, I'd be saying, come back in. You're 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:34.320 too far out, you're too far out, Come back in, 0:17:35.000 --> 0:17:39.960 classic Dad. They're rolling their eyes, Dad, come on, calm down. 0:17:40.119 --> 0:17:43.560 Abby is hanging on my back, and I'm telling Elijah 0:17:43.560 --> 0:17:46.680 and Graham come back in. You're too far out. There's 0:17:46.720 --> 0:17:50.800 an undercurrent. There's nobody else out here but us. That 0:17:50.880 --> 0:17:53.760 means we're not very smart. This is not a good 0:17:53.840 --> 0:17:56.719 time to swim in the ocean. Come back in. I 0:17:56.760 --> 0:17:59.080 can't see you out there. I know you can swim. 0:17:59.080 --> 0:18:01.200 I know you're taller than me, but i'm your dad. 0:18:01.440 --> 0:18:04.320 Come back in. That's too far out. Come back in. 0:18:04.440 --> 0:18:07.480 And Abby's hanging on my back and she says, Dad, 0:18:07.800 --> 0:18:13.720 calm down, it's not that deep. So I put her down. 0:18:20.680 --> 0:18:22.760 And after she thrashed around for a minute because she's 0:18:22.760 --> 0:18:27.640 not on my back anymore. Standing on the solid rock, 0:18:36.359 --> 0:18:38.120 you know, how we get air again. We think we're 0:18:38.200 --> 0:18:40.199 so great and so good and we could do it, 0:18:40.280 --> 0:18:45.000 but really it's what we're standing on. And when I 0:18:45.040 --> 0:18:47.320 put her down, when I put her down. She thrashed 0:18:47.320 --> 0:18:52.720 around a little bit, and I said, it's deeper. Then 0:18:52.800 --> 0:18:59.800 you think it's deeper, then you think. The disciples found 0:18:59.800 --> 0:19:03.320 out how deep it was when Jesus left to be 0:19:03.359 --> 0:19:05.639 in heaven and they had to do the things that 0:19:05.640 --> 0:19:08.280 they had seen him do without him there to correct 0:19:08.280 --> 0:19:10.280 them when they messed it up. Now, Peter, if you 0:19:10.320 --> 0:19:12.640 cut off an ear, it stays off. Jesus isn't around 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:17.040 to put it back on. One time they went to 0:19:17.080 --> 0:19:19.560 go cast out demons. They'd seen Jesus cast out demons. 0:19:19.560 --> 0:19:21.520 They went to cast out demons and they couldn't do it. 0:19:21.560 --> 0:19:22.840 They came back and said, why can't we do it? 0:19:22.880 --> 0:19:25.840 We saw you do it, He said, This kind comes 0:19:25.840 --> 0:19:30.719 out only by prayer and fasting. You thought it was 0:19:30.760 --> 0:19:36.480 the motions you watched how I put my hand, or 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:38.320 you listen to what I said, or maybe you copied 0:19:38.320 --> 0:19:43.480 my voice inflection. It's not at that level. It's deeper 0:19:44.280 --> 0:19:47.840 than you think. We just read a text that seems 0:19:47.880 --> 0:19:53.440 to be about forty verses on something as simple as 0:19:53.480 --> 0:19:58.960 a beverage service. Forty verses on something that happens every 0:19:59.040 --> 0:20:00.920 day when you go to a rest or. Right when 0:20:00.920 --> 0:20:04.800 you go to your fridge forty verses. Now, why I 0:20:04.880 --> 0:20:08.119 love to revisit old scriptures isn't because I want a 0:20:08.160 --> 0:20:11.719 week off from studying. It's because the same thing that 0:20:11.760 --> 0:20:13.520 we do in our lives we often do with the 0:20:13.520 --> 0:20:23.160 Word of God. We skim. We skim, We skim, we scroll, 0:20:24.880 --> 0:20:29.359 We skim and we scroll. We don't really know anybody, 0:20:29.680 --> 0:20:33.640 We just skim and we scroll. We don't really read 0:20:33.760 --> 0:20:38.480 any news stories. We skim the headlines and we scroll 0:20:38.720 --> 0:20:42.199 to the next one. So we develop entire ideologies and 0:20:42.240 --> 0:20:45.960 belief systems on what happened and judgments on people because 0:20:46.000 --> 0:20:50.080 we skim and we scroll, like the Pharisees. By the way, 0:20:50.280 --> 0:20:53.000 in the first few verses I read, they heard Jesus's 0:20:53.000 --> 0:20:55.840 baptize and more disciple more with people than John the Baptist, 0:20:56.000 --> 0:20:58.240 And Jesus wasn't even the one person doing to baptism. 0:20:58.480 --> 0:21:00.320 But since when did the truth get in way of 0:21:00.359 --> 0:21:04.000 a fun rumor? They start talking, they start moving, and 0:21:04.119 --> 0:21:07.960 Jesus goes to Samaria. Now, this passage, on one hand, 0:21:08.000 --> 0:21:11.600 is a geographical description of how Jesus traveled to Galilee, 0:21:11.600 --> 0:21:16.000 where he based his ministry, But it's deeper than you think. 0:21:17.000 --> 0:21:21.280 For instance, did you know that most Jews, instead of 0:21:21.320 --> 0:21:24.240 going straight through Samaria if they were going to Galilee, 0:21:24.760 --> 0:21:28.280 would go around Samaria and it took twice as long. 0:21:28.840 --> 0:21:31.639 But they didn't go through Samaria because they the Bible 0:21:31.680 --> 0:21:35.480 even said it did not like or associate with the Samaritans. 0:21:36.160 --> 0:21:37.840 And you read that and you think, well, that's wrong. 0:21:38.640 --> 0:21:41.240 That sounds like they're bigots. That sounds like they're racist, 0:21:41.359 --> 0:21:44.040 that sounds like their religious classes, that sounds like they 0:21:44.080 --> 0:21:48.119 have an issue, and they do. But to really understand 0:21:48.240 --> 0:21:51.160 even the depth of why they walked around Samaria instead 0:21:51.160 --> 0:21:53.600 of going through it, you'd have to break it down 0:21:53.920 --> 0:21:56.120 and go all the way back to seven hundred BC, 0:21:56.560 --> 0:21:59.479 so this is seven centuries before Jesus showed up to 0:21:59.480 --> 0:22:03.200 talk to this woman and understand how the religious environment 0:22:03.240 --> 0:22:06.119 of Samaria had been populated with those who did not 0:22:06.200 --> 0:22:08.879 worship the True God. And so when they were taken 0:22:08.920 --> 0:22:11.240 out of Samaria, which was the Northern kingdom, that was 0:22:11.240 --> 0:22:14.199 a divided kingdom, Israel was a divided kingdom, and the 0:22:14.280 --> 0:22:17.320 division ran deep because the moment they were taken out 0:22:17.320 --> 0:22:19.919 of their homeland, some other people were brought in, and 0:22:19.960 --> 0:22:23.399 when they came back, they started marrying and mixing, and 0:22:23.440 --> 0:22:26.320 so many of the people who were in Samaria worshiped 0:22:26.320 --> 0:22:29.160 other gods. So when the Jews didn't want to associate 0:22:29.200 --> 0:22:32.080 with the Samaritans, it was because they didn't want to 0:22:32.080 --> 0:22:36.080 get dragged down by the customs of the Samaritans, not 0:22:36.200 --> 0:22:38.800 because they were so dysfunctional in their heart that they 0:22:38.800 --> 0:22:41.600 didn't like them. And now you begin to see through 0:22:41.880 --> 0:22:44.960 the eyes of the Jewish people why they avoided that 0:22:45.119 --> 0:22:48.480 certain place called Samaria, And you begin to understand why 0:22:48.640 --> 0:22:51.960 in your life you avoid certain things as well. Why 0:22:52.040 --> 0:22:55.200 don't you finish things, Why don't you start new things? 0:22:55.359 --> 0:22:58.240 Why won't you love again? Why won't you trust again? 0:22:58.480 --> 0:23:01.960 Why can't you express yourself? Why don't you come to church? 0:23:02.320 --> 0:23:08.720 It's deeper than it seems, and it's deeper than you 0:23:08.800 --> 0:23:15.000 even think. Be very careful about your rush to judgment 0:23:15.480 --> 0:23:26.920 concerning someone whose journey you have not shared. Be very careful. 0:23:27.240 --> 0:23:33.360 God hates divorce. Be very careful hiding something that resembles 0:23:33.480 --> 0:23:36.960 more the kind of bigotry that the Pharisees were known for, 0:23:37.440 --> 0:23:41.760 underneath what sounds spiritual from a situation that has already 0:23:41.800 --> 0:23:44.479 broken the heart of the person whose wounds you were 0:23:44.480 --> 0:23:51.040 pouring salt into I think I lost eighty seven percent 0:23:51.080 --> 0:23:53.480 of the church. Next week would be a good week 0:23:53.520 --> 0:23:56.399 to come be plenty of seats. This preaching is not 0:23:56.480 --> 0:24:00.280 a crowd building preaching. No no, no, no, no, stay 0:24:00.320 --> 0:24:04.000 up abstract here, pastor talking to us about heaven when 0:24:04.040 --> 0:24:06.960 we die in streets of gold and mentions of glory. 0:24:07.160 --> 0:24:09.040 Don't talk to me about my attitude. I want to 0:24:09.080 --> 0:24:11.240 talk about my attitude. I know I got a bad attitude, 0:24:11.240 --> 0:24:13.280 but I love the Lord. I'm not happy, but I 0:24:13.320 --> 0:24:19.000 got joy. I said that last week. That's a Christian saying, 0:24:20.000 --> 0:24:23.920